Ending DACA Should ‘Spark’ Enactment of ‘Humane’ Immigration Law, Shapiro Says
The Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should “spark” Congress to enact a “humane” immigration law “that attracts and enables the world's best and brightest to innovate, build companies, create jobs and drive…
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economic growth,” CTA President Gary Shapiro said in a statement Tuesday. “Dreamers are an important part of this equation,” he said. DACA recipients are “employed at major tech companies such as Apple and Microsoft” and are “innovating and paying their share into Social Security and Medicare,” Shapiro said. Reports estimate 91 percent of DACA recipients are employed, and at least 75 percent of the largest companies in America have at least one DACA employee, he said. “Our representatives in Washington can make a real difference and create a better tomorrow for our nation and these hardworking dreamers. The time has come for a bipartisan solution that fixes our broken immigration system, defines a pathway for dreamers to earn a place in our society and addresses our nation's labor shortage. Inaction is not a winning immigration strategy." Other tech and media groups and companies also criticized the DACA decision.